JorgeGT

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by JorgeGT 9y ago
It's quite interesting that with the power of today's mobile devices (multicore 1GHz+ CPUs, GPUs, 2Gb+ RAM) we still don't have a standardized interface to plug them into desktop peripherals and launch a desktop OS/GUI.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Also worth checking: minimodem http://www.whence.com/minimodem/ (and an audio cable if your laptop has a line-in minijack!)
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I highly recommend this one. It is divided in short sections devoted to one specific topic, directly to the point, including practical examples and indicating how to do it in popular software like Word, CSS, etc.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I think the best argument against a Nobel Prize in Economics was made, precisely, by one of its recipients, Friedrich August von Hayek, during the 1974 ceremony [1]: > I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a No
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> The only intuitive interface is the nipple, everything else is learned Not even that, many many babies don't know how to do it at first: http://www.normalfed.com/help/babyget/
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
In that example yes, but if I put {% author %} Name {% author %}, a static build system can put the author name centered in the top of the page, or in a signature at the bottom, or in a floating div on the sidebar, or... In your HTML docume
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
They do much more: primarily, they translate from markdown to HTML. This is, you don't write your content in HTML, you write it in a markup language that the static generator converts in an HTML document. Then, they can manage tags, pa
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I love my raspberry pi, but to "learn-to-code" I would rather buy an Acer Aspire 1 [1], which is cheaper than this kit, has much better performance and a very nice flat design. With the remaining money I would buy a raspberry zero
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
If anyone from Google Scholar is reading this, please, please, add a DOI field to the BiBTex citation. It is required in every serious journal and it's tiresome to copy the citation, then open the article page and look for the DOI to a
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> mac/linux only, sorry Don't be. Perfect use case for the Windows Linux Subsystem: https://i.imgur.com/v0b9Nmh.png
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
To makes things worse, they have also changed the algorithm to promote lesser known subreddits to r/all (or r/popular) more easily [1]. Which is not always good, /r/rtlsdr was unusable for a few days after that... [1] &
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Maybe I should give it a second chance, but I agree that the other gestures are great. You should try the flashlight one, I have it activated in my MG5+ and has never misfired, since you need a pretty vigourous shake to activate it.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
It reminds me of Motorola's option to remove Android's black button bar and rely instead of swiping gestures over the fingerprint reader [1]. I tried it and, to their credit, it works very well. But it felt unnatural and my muscle
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
It is exactly what the article author suggests in fact: > Github pages does not offer secured custom domain name. The best way to get this feature for free is to use Cloudflare. [The article then proceeds on how exactly do that.]
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
This is what we do in Spain, but with the national ID card. Only detail is that there is no backup, if you forget the passphrase you go to the police station and use your fingerprint in a machine that will reset your pass.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I think their products are really great for the general public, because not everyone knows GIS and how to access satellite imagery. In some cases, such as fires, earthquakes, etc. they even estimate the impact into buildings (affected, dest
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Yep, I saw the really neat aerial imagery, and I know that in addition the USGS ingests enormous quantities of raw satellite imagery ( https://twitter.com/USGS_HDDS ), however most of that data is not freely available to the
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
That was a super interesting read that raised so many important points. Regarding the mentioned lack of maps of flooded areas, I wonder if volunteers were aware of the Copernicus EMS service activation [1]. This is a mapping team that, upon
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> The court also noted that the authorities "found [on the Mac Book Pro] one image depicting a pubescent girl in a sexually suggestive position and logs that suggested the user had visited groups with titles common in child exploit
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Serious question for those who know about crypto, do drive encryption systems allow to retrieve hashes for the encrypted files?
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Such a nice threatening tool too: - We just "found" this encrypted drive in your apartment. Too bad you don't "remember" the password uh? The judge won't like it!
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> The main one being that airplanes are not equipped with sensors capable of detecting other aircraft nearby. Well, there's ACAS/TCAS (airborne collision avoidance system / traffic collision avoidance system) and certainly
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
The catch is that you can buy an Apple phone everywhere, but for instance Google decided simply to not offer the Pixel in my country. Also, they stopped updating my Nexus 4 long time ago, something that Apple does not with their devices. He
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> and I'd be suspicious on anyone trying to promote it. It's just a former CIA Director signing the op-ed. It's not like they have a collection of zero-days and other exploits is it?
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
It's an age old question indeed, the example you cited has been recorded from at least the first century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
We do something similar in Spain. We vote with paper ballots. Then, when polls close, the volunteers at each table count the ballots and input the data into an electronic system, which makes the aggregates. In a few hours (4-5) we have the
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> with optimal placement of code on the drum being seen as a major programming skill. I remember reading an article/blog post from a programer of that time detailing how he optimized some code by taking into account the physics of t
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
If anyone is wondering, the UNIVAC scientific system pictured at the end was able to hold the impressive capacity of ~55 kB of RAM: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Remington_...
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
But what if you want to stop and contemplate something? Marine fauna will probably flee from moving objects.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
While this is true, I have the feel that third party VPN companies would be more interesting targets for intrusions, both from private and state-backed actors. Also, VPN-company traffic logs could be a tempting asset to sell or steal. On th

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